TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Dear Esther and Others, Just to clarify Esther's suggestions, the problem I hav encountered does not seem to be language related. In fact, the text I was trying to send to TextEdit was in English. The first suggestion of using windows chooser menu to determine whether in fact there is a save dialog window open which Voiceover cannot see, I have actually tested. And the curious thing is that TextEdit reports not having any windows at all. Voiceover says 0 windows when I activate windows chooser menu. Do you feel, Esther, that I should report it to accessibility at Apple? With best wishes Andrew On 17 Nov 2012, at 16:26, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics 1Password [1 Update] how to navigate around the skype 6 contacts list? [4 Updates] Barnes and Noble E-reads and nook: How Accessible are They? [4 Updates] Has anyone noticed a total lack of response from Spotlight since the last update? [1 Update] WiTopia will only say, WiTopia has no windows [2 Updates] VoiceOver: Using VoiceOver on a Mac without a display attached may cause applications to be slow or unresponsive [7 Updates] Mail Busy ... [1 Update] cool app: capture sound on your Mac as easily as a screenshot [3 Updates] delete characters right to the cursor with one key [1 Update] TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it. [1 Update] 1Password ROD SKENE skene...@gmail.com Nov 17 09:45AM -0600 Hi everyone, I have a trial version of 1Password and want to purchase the app from the App store. I have entered quite a bit of information into the trial version. What is the best way to upgrade to a full license ? I do sink with Dropbox with the 1Password iOS app on my iPhone. I'm not sure if I should delete the app from my Mac before purchasing from the App store or will the app be upgraded to a full license if I leave the trial version of 1Password on my Mac without deleting. Thanks for suggestions. Rod how to navigate around the skype 6 contacts list? Estelita est...@sky.com Nov 17 02:26PM Hello, I have Skype 6 installed in my macbook pro, any instruction please on how to find out who is online in my contact list? What commands to call, or to send them message? Thank you, your help is very much appreciated. Nene Rachel Feinberg walksi...@gmail.com Nov 17 07:01AM -0800 Hello, On the left sidebar, there's options like skype home, recent and contacts. If you interact with the table, go to contacts, then stop interacting. Vo+right Arrow, until you get to the contacts list table. Interact with that, and you can then vo+up or down arrow to go through the list of contacts. You'll pass some related tabs on your way over to the table, that tell you which contacts you'll see. You can choose all, skype, or online. When you find the contact you want to call, press vo+shift+m on their name, and call is the first option if you vo+down arrow. Vo+space on that or instant message, and you're good to go. Rachel Estelita est...@sky.com Nov 17 03:31PM Hi Rachel, Thanks a lot for this very thorough instruction. - Original Message - From: Rachel Feinberg To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 3:01 PM Subject: Re: how to navigate around the skype 6 contacts list? Hello, On the left sidebar, there's options like skype home, recent and contacts. If you interact with the table, go to contacts, then stop interacting. Vo+right Arrow, until you get to the contacts list table. Interact with that, and you can then vo+up or down arrow to go through the list of contacts. You'll pass some related tabs on your way over to the table, that tell you which contacts you'll see. You can choose all, skype, or online. When you find the contact you want to call, press vo+shift+m on their name, and call is the first option if you vo+down arrow. Vo+space on that or instant message, and you're good to go. Rachel On Nov 17, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Estelita est...@sky.com wrote: Hello, I have Skype 6 installed in my macbook pro, any instruction please on how to find out who is online in my contact list? What commands to call, or to send them message? Thank you, your help is very much appreciated. Nene -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Hi Maria, Cheryl, Max, and Others, Using the Services Menu option for New TextEdit window containing selection actually gives you some extra accessibility features that using copy, command-tab to TextEdit, and pasting does not, because it strips out controls that are not text-related when it sends the content to TextEdit. So if you are viewing a document with embedded tables or lists, select all with Command-A, then use the services menu option for sending to TextEdit via a shortcut, VoiceOver will automatically read the entire table content or list that was invisible to you because it was embedded one layer down, and you can navigate through with full control in the TextEdit window. Another example where this sometimes works is when you have a badly coded web page that doesn't render correctly with a screen reader because the author hasn't put the HTML commands in the correct order around each element. Nearly two years ago someone posted an example of a web page they needed to read and asked for solutions. With the New TextEdit window containing selection services menu option, that page became readable to VoiceOver. Using Safari Reader (Command-Shift-R), most of the page became readable, but not the comments sections at the end that were readable with the first method but unreadable with the second. I think that was probably the first time this option caught the attention of macvisionaries list users, although there are postings about it going back to Tiger dating from before the list moved to Google Groups. I use TextEdit a lot, usually in plain text mode, because VO correctly reads characters from non-Latin alphabets (like Cyrillic characters for Russian) and special symbols such as those for math characters. I'm not sure how to trouble-shoot Andrew's problem, since I'm not running the latest version of the OS and don't see this issue with TextEdit myself, but this might be due to a focus issue. At one time in an earlier version of Mac OS X, the TextEdit window that received the contents of the service menu option didn't also receive focus, but had to be accessed via window chooser menu or by doing command-tabs back to TextEdit. Are there many other TextEdit windows open at the same time? The other possibility is that this is tied to different language selections for the different TextEdit windows. I know that both Andrew and Harry use more than one language. TextEdit is supposed to be able to support different languages in different windows, so you can compose a document in one language while reading in another in a different language. Mountain Lion has been adding a lot of new language features and new dictionaries for other languages according to the multilingual mac blog pages. It's possible that there's extra time required to resolve the language resources needed for a new TextEdit window in another language, if there is more than one language in use at the same time. These are just a few thoughts, since I haven't found this issue myself. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 14, 2012, at 18:11, Maria Joe Chapman wrote: Hi. yep that's how i normally do it. God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. On 15/11/2012, at 10:38 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through menus but I imagine it all comes down to what one is used to doing. -- Cheryl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Mark, In order to send selected text from anywhere on your mac into TextEdit, you have enable it in system preferences / keyboard and choose keyboard shortcuts tab. Then vo+right arrow to the first table of available categories. Interact with it and arrow down to services. Stop interacting and move right to the second table which will now say services shortcuts keys or something obviously relevant. Interact with the table and now you have a long list of possible services. Either you arrow down to the item new text edit window containing selection, or use item chooser menu to jump there by beginning to type new textedit window containing selection, which should take you straight to the item. Vo+spacebar to choose this. First you have to check the box to the left of new TextEdit window containing selection' item in order to enable it in your services menu in each application's menu. once the box is checked, move right to press the button which says add shortcut. vo+spacebar and you should be presented with the text box where you want to put your shortcut keys. Just press them, and they will be registered. Remember that you need to make sure that they do not conflict with other cross system shortcut keys. I've made mine to be command+control+t. Close system preferences and you can start using your shortcut. Now whenever you select a piece of text or even an entire document or webpage, you can just press your shortcut key combination and TextEdit should open up with a new document containing your selection. I find this very useful and fast, especially when I highlight a whole webpage with an article that's already been stripped of all the junk by readability services. All this knowledge has been gleaned off Esther's posts in the archives on the subject. Thanks Esther. Others have also posted on this services frequently. So there is more in the archives. Best wishes Andrew On 14 Nov 2012, at 22:29, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it. [5 Updates] Received warning while repairing disc permissions [3 Updates] trying to identify a bug with VoiceOver in Mountain Lion [1 Update] iPhone says no simcard installed [2 Updates] mail not auto-correcting? [3 Updates] changing the genre of iTunes Albums? [1 Update] conference call for blind VMWare Fusion users [1 Update] Bookshare files again. [2 Updates] VoiceOver behaviors in Safari [1 Update] TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it. Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com Nov 14 03:58PM Dear Listers, I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to have it send to textedit. Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press command+s, I get a response from Voiceover untitled but I cannot actually see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to close it, I get again the same untitled response from VoiceOver. At this point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case here. The force quit window is not there. Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook air with Mountain Lion. Andrew Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com Nov 14 10:50AM -0600 Hello, I have experienced this problem as well. Interestingly, it seems as if you command tab way from the window after pressing command S to save, once you command tab back, if I remember right, you will have the regular save dialogue, etc. It is as if VoiceOver loses focus. It might be a useful exercise to see where the mouse pointer and VoiceOver cursers are during all of this. As for TExtEdit freezing and having to be force quit, that is something I have no answer for but have also noticed. Again it might be some sort of focus issue. Hope this helps, some at least, Harry Maria Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com Nov 15 07:12AM +1100 Hi. i didn't even realize you could send text to text edit. I have always just opened text edit and copy and pasted. how do you do
TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Dear Listers, I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to have it send to textedit. Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press command+s, I get a response from Voiceover untitled but I cannot actually see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to close it, I get again the same untitled response from VoiceOver. At this point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case here. The force quit window is not there. Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook air with Mountain Lion. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Hello, I have experienced this problem as well. Interestingly, it seems as if you command tab way from the window after pressing command S to save, once you command tab back, if I remember right, you will have the regular save dialogue, etc. It is as if VoiceOver loses focus. It might be a useful exercise to see where the mouse pointer and VoiceOver cursers are during all of this. As for TExtEdit freezing and having to be force quit, that is something I have no answer for but have also noticed. Again it might be some sort of focus issue. Hope this helps, some at least, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 9:58 a.m., Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Listers, I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to have it send to textedit. Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press command+s, I get a response from Voiceover untitled but I cannot actually see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to close it, I get again the same untitled response from VoiceOver. At this point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case here. The force quit window is not there. Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook air with Mountain Lion. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Hi. i didn't even realize you could send text to text edit. I have always just opened text edit and copy and pasted. how do you do this? I will try it and see if I get the same results. God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 15/11/2012, at 2:58 AM, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Listers, I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to have it send to textedit. Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press command+s, I get a response from Voiceover untitled but I cannot actually see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to close it, I get again the same untitled response from VoiceOver. At this point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case here. The force quit window is not there. Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook air with Mountain Lion. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Maria, You want to setup a shortcut in System Preferences for New TextEdit Containing Selection, which is the easiest way to send text to TextEdit. Alternatively, you can go down to the Services menu and find it there. Hope this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 2:12 p.m., Maria Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. i didn't even realize you could send text to text edit. I have always just opened text edit and copy and pasted. how do you do this? I will try it and see if I get the same results. God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 15/11/2012, at 2:58 AM, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Listers, I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to have it send to textedit. Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press command+s, I get a response from Voiceover untitled but I cannot actually see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to close it, I get again the same untitled response from VoiceOver. At this point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case here. The force quit window is not there. Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook air with Mountain Lion. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Mark, Go to the menu bar, to the name of the application, down to the services menu, and within that menu you will have an option which says New TextEdit windows containing selection. You first need to select the text you want to show up in TextEdit, then go and perform this command. I don't remember if the command has to be activated within System Preferences for it to show up in the Services menu, or if that is only for the shortcut command to work. This is a useful command for reviewing all formatting, for making some PDF documents read more easily, or for looking at automatic page numbers in Pages, which Voiceover reads as blank or space. HOpe this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 4:19 p.m., Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Well, I see you're right, but I do not understand that preferences pan at all. not a bit. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through menus but I imagine it all comes down to what one is used to doing. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Go to the menu bar, to the name of the application, down to the services menu, and within that menu you will have an option which says New TextEdit windows containing selection. You first need to select the text you want to show up in TextEdit, then go and perform this command. I don't remember if the command has to be activated within System Preferences for it to show up in the Services menu, or if that is only for the shortcut command to work. This is a useful command for reviewing all formatting, for making some PDF documents read more easily, or for looking at automatic page numbers in Pages, which Voiceover reads as blank or space. HOpe this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 4:19 p.m., Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Hi there! OK you can set up your own key stroke to activate the whole thing [in key board in system pref's] When you are in the key board window select the keyboard shortcuts tab and in the table of items select Services then in the next table arrow through until you find [under text] make new text with selection and you will be given an option to put your own key stroke into it! So you could put command/option/1 or something else [as long as that stroke does not already exist] and when your done then close and from then on you will only need to press your key combination much faster then both other options! hth Colin On 14 Nov 2012, at 23:38, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through menus but I imagine it all comes down to what one is used to doing. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Go to the menu bar, to the name of the application, down to the services menu, and within that menu you will have an option which says New TextEdit windows containing selection. You first need to select the text you want to show up in TextEdit, then go and perform this command. I don't remember if the command has to be activated within System Preferences for it to show up in the Services menu, or if that is only for the shortcut command to work. This is a useful command for reviewing all formatting, for making some PDF documents read more easily, or for looking at automatic page numbers in Pages, which Voiceover reads as blank or space. HOpe this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 4:19 p.m., Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
hi thanks. i'll give it a go and see how it works. . regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On 15/11/2012, at 11:52 AM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi there! OK you can set up your own key stroke to activate the whole thing [in key board in system pref's] When you are in the key board window select the keyboard shortcuts tab and in the table of items select Services then in the next table arrow through until you find [under text] make new text with selection and you will be given an option to put your own key stroke into it! So you could put command/option/1 or something else [as long as that stroke does not already exist] and when your done then close and from then on you will only need to press your key combination much faster then both other options! hth Colin On 14 Nov 2012, at 23:38, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through menus but I imagine it all comes down to what one is used to doing. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Go to the menu bar, to the name of the application, down to the services menu, and within that menu you will have an option which says New TextEdit windows containing selection. You first need to select the text you want to show up in TextEdit, then go and perform this command. I don't remember if the command has to be activated within System Preferences for it to show up in the Services menu, or if that is only for the shortcut command to work. This is a useful command for reviewing all formatting, for making some PDF documents read more easily, or for looking at automatic page numbers in Pages, which Voiceover reads as blank or space. HOpe this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 4:19 p.m., Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: TextEdit becomes unusable after sending selected text to it.
Hi. yep that's how i normally do it. God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 15/11/2012, at 10:38 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: I agree it should work since it is an available option but I've always thought that was too much work so I've never done it that way. I just select my text, copy it, cmd-tab to text edit or open it from dock if it isn't opened, and pasted. This has somehow seemed easier to me than going through menus but I imagine it all comes down to what one is used to doing. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Go to the menu bar, to the name of the application, down to the services menu, and within that menu you will have an option which says New TextEdit windows containing selection. You first need to select the text you want to show up in TextEdit, then go and perform this command. I don't remember if the command has to be activated within System Preferences for it to show up in the Services menu, or if that is only for the shortcut command to work. This is a useful command for reviewing all formatting, for making some PDF documents read more easily, or for looking at automatic page numbers in Pages, which Voiceover reads as blank or space. HOpe this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 4:19 p.m., Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is this? I can select any portion of an Email, copy it to the pasteboard, then launch Textedit with a keystroke and paste it in. Which other way is there to do this? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
